From engineering town to urban democracy

This paper follows the analyses of two significant tendencies: a considerable professional atomisation and a drive to an interdisciplinary approach, a problem that is notable in architecture and urban planning, as well as in other fields. Both architecture and urban planning are classified as technical branches that have a negative result in the broken communication between humanistic and scientific culture. This also negatively influences the complex education system. In this context, the authors stress the importance of ethics in an engineer's education and work. They argue that the unity of technology, ethics and aesthetics has become, in all its aspects, one of the most important principles in the cultural development of mankind. Ethics can introduce solutions to many problems of civilisation. The main problem of the topic is illustrated by examples from history and literature.